Only 3 magic schools?
uncmark
uncmark at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 3 21:39:27 UTC 2002
No: HPFGUIDX 34593
In Goblet of Fire, Harry was surprised that he had never considered
how many wizards there were worldwide. There were over 100,000 at the
Quidditch World cup Final and those tickets were
considered 'impossible to get. I think we could reasonably estimate
the worldwidw wizard population at 1 million (which would place 1
wizard in every 5000 to 6000 births)
Are we further to guess from the Triwizard Tournament that there are
only 3 secondary schools worldwide? They represent the UK. France,
and the Eastern European groups, but conspicuously missing are
Americans, Orientals, Africans, or Latinos. Do these populations have
no magical schools?
I think that Hogwarts, Durmstrang, and Beauxbaton might be the three
oldest only, much like the US 'ivy league'. It was mentioned that the
Tournament hadn't been held in centuries. There are probably schools
in other regions, maybe we'll see them in later books.
Thoughts on the subject?
Uncmark
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